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035 _a(OCoLC)646814361
050 1 4 _aPS153.N5
_bM89 2009eb
082 0 4 _a810.9/3578
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100 1 _aMuyumba, Walton M.
245 1 4 _aThe shadow and the act
_h[electronic resource] :
_bblack intellectual practice, jazz improvisation, and philosophical pragmatism /
_cWalton M. Muyumba.
260 _aChicago ;
_aLondon :
_bUniversity of Chicago Press,
_c2009.
300 _axi, 216 p. ;
_c22 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: vamping til ready -- Movement I: Three ways of looking at a yardbird: Charlie Parker and the theorization of jazz improvisation in the work of Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Le Roi Jones/Amiri Baraka -- Movement II: Black is, black ain't: violence, black masculinity, and the novel as democratic symbol -- Movement III: Cutting session: Baldwin as intellectual prizefighter, Baldwin as improvising intellectual -- Movement IV: Improvising over the changes: improvisation as intellectual and aesthetic practice in the transitional poems of Le Roi Jones/Amiri Baraka -- Coda.
533 _aElectronic reproduction.
_bPalo Alto, Calif. :
_cebrary,
_d2009.
_nAvailable via World Wide Web.
_nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
600 1 0 _aEllison, Ralph
_xCriticism and interpretation.
600 1 0 _aBaldwin, James,
_d1924-1987
_xCriticism and interpretation.
600 1 0 _aBaraka, Imamu Amiri,
_d1934-
_xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 _aAmerican literature
_xAfrican American authors
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aJazz in literature.
650 0 _aJazz
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aImprovisation (Music)
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aebrary, Inc.
856 4 0 _uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/kliuc/Doc?id=10317917
_zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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_d68878